Turn of Quicktime AutoPlay

Hi,
I frequently surf YouTube with tabs, and since upgrading to Safari 4 all the videos autoplay. Which is very annoying because I will have 5 tabs all playing videos at the same time. Before upgrading the videos did not autoplay and did not start playing until I clicked play. I have gone into the Quicktime preference pane and turned off Streaming>Instant On and Browser>Play Movies Automatically.
However Safari continues to autoplay. Any ideas? Fixes?
Thanks!

15" 3.06GHz MacBook Pro 7200RPM 500GB - eMac 1GHz 768MB RAM SuperDrive 80GB, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Final Cut Pro 4.5HD - iPod 3G 15GB - iPod Shuffle 1G 1GB

Posted on Jul 6, 2009 8:35 AM

25 replies

MacRick Author

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Jul 6, 2009 11:41 AM in response to David M Brewer

I understand autoplay tags, however when you are watching a video with the address for example:

quicktime.com/movies/quicktime.mp4

The only thing is the movie, it's like clicking a picture and selecting open in a new tab, the only thing showing is the movie/picture element of the page by itself. In this setup their is not autoplay tag, but the movies autoplay anyway and that is what I would like to disable. My old setup worked like this.

Jul 6, 2009 12:55 PM in response to MacRick

You still can't stop the video from playing. Also the video itself can have auto play embeded in the player. I don't know about you old set up. I just finish something like this for somebody who had quicktime.com/movies/quicktime.mp4 as a URL for a video. He wanted the video to auto play no matter what. So, I embeded into the video itself to auto play when opened.

MacRick Author

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Jul 6, 2009 3:01 PM in response to MacRick

So I called Apple and they can't figure it out, but they had me run Disk Utility and when I repaired permission it came up with Permissions differ and something about the quicktime preference pane. I did it twice and it came up both times so obviously repair disk permissions isn't fixing it. Any ideas?

Jul 16, 2009 4:37 PM in response to MacRick

I'm having the exact same problem as MacRick, and it's very annoying.

It's definitely something to do with Safari 4. Ever since I upgraded my home machine to Safari 4 this is the behavior I experience (mpegs, movs, wmvs all play automatically even though these preferences are unchecked in Quicktime and Flip4Mac).

This did not happen with Safari 3. My work computer was basically a clone of my home computer, except I never upgraded the browser to Safari 4. Videos respect the preference setting in Safari 3.

Firefox 3 works as expected. Videos load but do not play until I press the play button.

On top of that, Safari 4 tries to force all videos into Kiosk mode, and that is also definitely not checked.

I submitted a bug report because something is definitely wrong here.

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MacRick Author

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Jul 16, 2009 4:40 PM in response to John Garrett6

I have also narrowed this down to being exclusive to Safari 4. I think I will using Safari 3 until this is fixed.

Jul 28, 2009 6:34 PM in response to MacRick

I have confirmed that the problem is with the version of WebKit that Safari 4 installs. I have been able to run a stand-alone version of Safari 3 (with the old WebKit version bundled inside of it) and the streaming videos do not auto-play, but if I fire up Safari 4 (which uses the newer WebKit bundled with OS X 10.5) the videos stream in both Safari and Firefox.

Do a Google search for Multi-Safari to get the older version(s) of Safari with the old WebKit bundled.

Sep 3, 2009 6:42 AM in response to fugeelama

Finally managed to figure it out. If you have ClickToFlash it has a bug where it autoplays all intercepted Flash videos. Here's my blog post on how I fixed it: http://bit.ly/3AbqzA

Sep 9, 2009 3:55 AM in response to fugeelama

I am glad I found this thread. I make a weekly podcast and also create a webpage with the text and an embedded QT link. This week all I see is the QT question-mark, although last week's page, with the same <embed src> tag works fine. An extra link in the page now allows a download, so I am fairly sure the file and location are OK.

I did notice that when I access these pages I am asked by Little Snitch to give permission for WebKit to connect to the site (I press Allow), but the file does not load while it does in Firefox and (as above) it is OK for earlier pages using the same coding. I do not use Autoplay: I have that marked as "False".

Apart from the comments already in this thread, are there any other suggestions, please?

I also see that Feedburner delivers the podcast correctly and it downloaded in iTunes OK, so I guess files and locations are fine.

Message was edited by: Graham K. Rogers

tuscan

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Sep 11, 2009 12:13 AM in response to MacRick

i have the same problem with autoplaying movies in safari 4. it started just after i had installed safari 4 (still on 10.5.8).

like others have posted here already, no setting in the quicktime or flip4mac prefs pane stops this autoplay feature.

also, i'm not using the ClickToFlash plugin. my ~/Library/Internet Plugins folder is completely empty (/Library/Internet Plugins contains many files but nothing that reads like ClickToFlash).

Sep 11, 2009 7:35 AM in response to tuscan

I cured my podcast problem by rewriting the link to be an absolute link instead of relational -- including the http://www et al - rather than just the directory linking (../../directory). Perhaps as that was written with the new webkit integration, that affected the page. Not good if that is the case.

Has anyone also had any improvements with the arrival of the 10.6.1 update?

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